Writers, After Dark

Horror author Craig DiLouie stops by to talk about his newest novel, "The Children of Red Peak", and building horror from the terror, in this instance following the downward spiral of the members of a cult. Craig talks about the important elements needed in building a tense psychological horror and how each character may react will influence the story, his research into the psychology of belief an...

Fantasy author Evan Winter returns to talk about "The Fires of Vengeance", the second volume in his series "The Burning". Evan talks about approaching his writing as a reader and connecting with the stories in their own right, any keeping those stories true to his vision, for the world and characters, and bringing realistic levels of humanity to those characters for the readers, making the entire...

Science fiction & fantasy author (and podcaster) Edward Willet drops by to talk about his newest anthology Shapers of Worlds , a collection of fiction from authors he had talked with on the first year of his podcast, The Worldshapers . Edward also talks about The Moonlit World , the new third book of his fantasy series "Worldshapers", starting up Shadowpaw Press , and more. "Shapers of Worlds" fea...

Actor & Producer Lou Diamond Phillips and his wife, illustrator Yvonne Phillips, stop by to talk about Lou's debut science fantasy novel, "The Tinderbox: Soldier of Indira", which Yvonne illustrated. Both Lou and Yvonne talk about how the idea came about to write this story as a novel rather than as a screenplay and to use Yvonne's drawings inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fable "The Tinderbo...